Using Behavioral Insights to Improve Disaster Preparedness, Early
Public Disclosure Authorized USING BEHAVIORAL INSIGHTS TO IMPROVE DISASTER Public Disclosure Authorized PREPAREDNESS, EARLY WARNING AND RESPONSE MECHANISMS IN HAITI Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized CONTENTS 1 Introduction 6 2 Methodology and description of data 9 3 Background and Context 13 4 Disaster Risk Management in Haiti 20 4.1 Operating model 20 4.2 Roles and key actors 22 4.3 Preparedness process 22 4.4 Communication channels 23 4.5 Evacuation process 23 5 Key Insights on Barriers to Evacuation 25 5.1 Obstacle 1: EWS Messages Do Not Arrive 25 5.2 Obstacle 2: People Do Not Understand EWS Messages 27 5.3 Obstacle 3: People Struggle to Internalize Risk 29 5.4 Obstacle 4: People Lack Access to Resources and Shelters to Evacuate 30 5.5 Obstacle 5: People Prefer Not to Evacuate 30 6 Ideas to Nudge People to Evacuate to A Safe Place on Time 34 7 Conclusion 39 Bibliography 41 Appendix 1 – Field Study Methodology and Diagnostic Activities 43 Appendix 2 – Hurricane classification 45 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS his report was prepared by a World Bank team composed of Jime- na Llopis (Behavioral Scientist, Poverty & Equity GP), Emilie Perge T (Economist, Poverty & Equity GP), Zeina Afif (Senior Social Scientist, Poverty & Equity GP), Claudia Soto Orozco (Disaster Risk Management Spe- cialist, Social, Urban Rural and Resilience GP), Lace Padilla (Consultant, Pov- erty & Equity GP), Jessica Hsu (Consultant, Poverty & Equity GP) with inputs from Cecile Lorillou (Consultant, Social, Urban Rural and Resilience GP); Ali Alwahti (Consultant, Social, Urban Rural and Resilience GP), Roland Brad- shaw (Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist, Social, Urban Rural and Resilience GP), and Giovanni Michele Toglia (Consultant, Social, Urban Rural and Resilience GP) with overall guidance from Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez (Prac- tice Manager, Poverty & Equity GP), Raju Singh (Program Leader, LCC8C), and Pierre-Xavier Bonneau (Program Leader, LCC8C).
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